Fire Bloom .

[Bellhorn04]

All interesting and largely irrelevant.

[dgalehouse]

With all that has gone wrong with the starting rotation and the defense, it has been the Sox bullpen that has helped to keep the team afloat. They have one of the lowest blown save percentages ( along with the Giants, Phillies and Blue Jays ) in MLB. You simply have to win the games that you are leading in the late innings. For the most part, they have been able to do that.

[MADSTORK]

He’s 3 for 9. You never get anything right. And clearly don’t grasp what a pink hat is…

 

I know this board is full of em!

Everyone gets a trophy

 

Romero rookie ball don’t count

 

Bye bye Orlando!

[MADSTORK]

Dombrowski was a f***ing genius...so was Theo...why? They went after important things needed to win a WS title...Theo went hard for Schilling, plugged the defensive hole at SS with the Nomar trade...Dombro brought in key components while the farm was producing the likes of Betts, Beni, Devers, Bogie...if indeed Bloom was told here is your budget, then the Story signing is a laughing stock to blowing that budget badly.

 

Finally, someone who gets it!

[MADSTORK]

The love for exotics worked somewhat with Dice-K, but throwing a ton of money at an unknown "veteran" is asking for a chance that the experiment falls flat. I'd rather have a proven MLB veteran player...why? Well, proven and MLB experience ready...you can't discount this in winning baseball. You better have talent and you better have veteran leadership. I don't think the Sox have either.

 

See Betts!

[MADSTORK]

Name one poster who thinks Bloom makes mostly or even half great moves?

 

Giving context is not apologizing. The team ha ssucked due to circustances beyond any GM's control. Has Bloom risen above it and done anything spectacular to make up for the fact that he's and the previous only gotten Houck from the farm since 2017? NO.

 

Bloom is not great. Nobody thinks he is. Nobody ever said he was.

 

His main task was to build up the foundation, and that won't be judged for years.

 

Nobody is saying 4 rings is enough. The idea is to build something sustainable- from the ground up. Has he done that?

 

I sure as hell don't know, and nobody should pretend to know.

 

 

Your delusional!

[illinoisredsox]

Can someone speak to the cat about what he’s bringing in??

[moonslav59]

Can someone speak to the cat about what he’s bringing in??

 

A Zagnut bar?

[Dipre]

A quadruple dose of idiocy is just what I needed this morning.

[Bellhorn04]

I finally put him on permanent ignore. Feels good.

[notin]

I finally put him on permanent ignore. Feels good.

 

I should. But I have this mild fascination with trolls who don’t realize that going to another team board and trying to disrupt any enthusiasm there really isn’t the bastion of intellect they think it is. And Stork makes up his trash! I mean, that he gets entertained by trolling speaks volumes about his simple mind, but that he can’t even use real numbers and makes stuff up?? That’s just priceless…

[MADSTORK]

The truth hurts don’t it boys?

What’s the old saying, let the truth set you free!

 

Redsox Ownership borderline dysfunctional, Redsox player personnel department is dysfunctional

Yawkey way clown show

 

Deal Betts then spend more $$ since he left trying to find his replacement

Same said for the XB debacle but again TStory is a much better player ain’t he?

 

Sign two stiffs and let Wacha go , Orlando must have asked Crockpot for his pitching opinion before he let ‘em walk ?

 

Last place is a beautiful feeling ain’t it pink hats

 

Remember, you need me in this wall!

Edited July 4, 2023 by MADSTORK

[iortiz]

Bloom has to go.

[a700hitter]

It is clear that the FO wants to run this organization at the highest profit margin. Winning is not the top priority. The attention of the ownership group is in too many other directions.

 

Bloom was brought in to run the show on the cheap, but he has been a failure.

[iortiz]

It is clear that the FO wants to run this organization at the highest profit margin. Winning is not the top priority. The attention of the ownership group is in too many other directions.

 

Bloom was brought in to run the show on the cheap, but he has been a failure.

 

If true it is a disgrace and JH must sale the team already. Another last place this year is unacceptable.

[a700hitter]

If true it is a disgrace and JH must sale the team already. Another last place this year is unacceptable.

Attendance will be way down from the norm. They are well below the usual pace and that will slow as they fall further out of the race.

[Dipre]

Lots of mind readers here on talksox.

[Elktonnick]

Attendance will be way down from the norm. They are well below the usual pace and that will slow as they fall further out of the race.

It has been fairly obvious that the Red Sox are no longer FSG's top priority. It has been well reported that FSG wants to acquire an NBA franchise to add to their empire.

Bloom's job is to field a good enough team not to depreciate the franchises overall value

[Dipre]

This is all baseless conjecture. It's obvious how?

[iortiz]

This is all baseless conjecture. It's obvious how?

 

Look how they are spending in recent years. If it is not obvious, I don't know what it is.

[Dipre]

Look how they are spending in recent years. If it is not obvious, I don't know what it is.

 

You mean that because they're trying not to spend stupidly, they've lost interest in the Red Sox? Give me the last large contract they've doled out that hasn't been a sunk cost? That's just not how you build a sustainable contender anymore. The point is to create a talent pipeline and supplement it with large contracts on elite talent. The fact that y'all want them to spend like drunken sailors is one thing, but that just doesn't work in this league anymore.

[Bellhorn04]

Can't blame people for being dissatisfied when the team is on its way to another last-place finish. The rebuild and compete thing is only half working.

[Dipre]

iortiz, Elktonnick and a700 are always dissatisfied with the FO though. Taking half measures is definitely BS though, they should've blown this up since before last year's TDL.

[moonslav59]

You mean that because they're trying not to spend stupidly, they've lost interest in the Red Sox? Give me the last large contract they've doled out that hasn't been a sunk cost? That's just not how you build a sustainable contender anymore. The point is to create a talent pipeline and supplement it with large contracts on elite talent. The fact that y'all want them to spend like drunken sailors is one thing, but that just doesn't work in this league anymore.

 

Well said.

 

Spending more on moderate deals makes more sense, but it’s not easy hitting those right, too.

 

You get what you pay for.

 

If pitchers making $20-40M fail more often than not, why do so many expect Bloom to hit on most of his signings at $5-10M?

 

Blooms largest pitcher signings:

$M

16 x 2 Jansen

9 x 2 Martin

10 x 1 Kluber

10 x 1 Richards

7 x 1 Wacha

6 x 1 Perez and 5 x 1 Perez II

5 x 1 Hill

4 x 2 Diekman

(Barnes extension 9 x 2)

[Elktonnick]

This is all baseless conjecture. It's obvious how?

 

BOSTON (CBS) -- Fenway Sports Group recently acquired the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. The Red Sox' ownership does not intend to stop there.

 

In an interview with The Boston Globe, Gerry Cardinale -- founder of RedBird Capital Partners, which invested $750 million in FSG last year -- laid out the ambitions of the group with regard to adding more teams to the portfolio.

 

"I would be very disappointed if I don't significantly increase the amount of capital that we've invested in Fenway to date for more opportunities," Cardinale told Michael Silverman. "I hope and I think we're going to have that opportunity to do so. That's what buying into that platform should be all about."

 

Cardinale said that adding an NBA team is "a real top priority" for FSG. The group would also like to own an NFL team, a WNBA team, a cricket team, and another soccer team (FSG already owns Liverpool FC).

 

"Everything's in play I would say, but as usual, we're going to have a very strict funnel," Cardinale told Silverman. "The bar has never been higher in terms of what really fits in the [FSG] portfolio. You should think about us looking to add other teams and the businesses around them. You should look at us building businesses within the platform itself, like I've done in my career at RedBird and Goldman, and you should look at continuing to evaluate the constructs."

 

MARCH 7, 2022 / 11:39 AM / CBS BOSTON

[notin]

BOSTON (CBS) -- Fenway Sports Group recently acquired the NHL's Pittsburgh Penguins. The Red Sox' ownership does not intend to stop there.

 

In an interview with The Boston Globe, Gerry Cardinale -- founder of RedBird Capital Partners, which invested $750 million in FSG last year -- laid out the ambitions of the group with regard to adding more teams to the portfolio.

 

"I would be very disappointed if I don't significantly increase the amount of capital that we've invested in Fenway to date for more opportunities," Cardinale told Michael Silverman. "I hope and I think we're going to have that opportunity to do so. That's what buying into that platform should be all about."

 

Cardinale said that adding an NBA team is "a real top priority" for FSG. The group would also like to own an NFL team, a WNBA team, a cricket team, and another soccer team (FSG already owns Liverpool FC).

 

"Everything's in play I would say, but as usual, we're going to have a very strict funnel," Cardinale told Silverman. "The bar has never been higher in terms of what really fits in the [FSG] portfolio. You should think about us looking to add other teams and the businesses around them. You should look at us building businesses within the platform itself, like I've done in my career at RedBird and Goldman, and you should look at continuing to evaluate the constructs."

 

MARCH 7, 2022 / 11:39 AM / CBS BOSTON

 

And where does it say the Red Sox are no longer a priority?

[sk7326]

Can't blame people for being dissatisfied when the team is on its way to another last-place finish. The rebuild and compete thing is only half working.

 

They have not generated "hope"

[Elktonnick]

And where does it say the Red Sox are no longer a priority?

First of all, I posted "not a top priority". If you are going to misconstrue what I posted at least quote me accurately. Secondly the article confirms my general thesis that FSG's top priority is expanding their holdings not running the Red Sox.

FSG has been soliciting new investors with the express intent to expand its portfolio. That is their primary agenda. Everything else is secondary judging by this gist of this article and similar pieces written elsewhere.

[moonslav59]

I guess it's impossible for multi billionaires to have more than one high priority thing going on at the same time. They all get rich by hyper-focusing on just one thing at a time.

 

[notin]

First of all, I posted "not a top priority". If you are going to misconstrue what I posted at least quote me accurately. Secondly the article confirms my general thesis that FSG's top priority is expanding their holdings not running the Red Sox.

FSG has been soliciting new investors with the express intent to expand its portfolio. That is their primary agenda. Everything else is secondary judging by this gist of this article and similar pieces written elsewhere.

 

 

You’re claiming to be misquoted because of a perceived difference between “top priority” and “priority”? Seriously?

 

And pray tell what do the day-to-day operations at FSG have to do with the Red Sox? Do Kennedy and Bloom raise money for NHL licensure?

 

In fact, wouldn’t a successful Red Sox franchise attract more investors? Do you think Henry doesn’t believe that?